Monday, December 24, 2007

Great Regulars: Thirty years ago this week,

on December 23, 1977, the TLS published "Aubade", one of the greatest, and bleakest, and indeed one of the very last poems written by Philip Larkin, who was himself to die in 1985.

Office correspondence exists from the season of the poem's publication which refers to the poem as "Christmas without the baby".

Aubade

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Aubade by Philip Larkin introduced by Mick Imlah

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